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Honestly 95% of the times I cast my ugly FNM Brainstorms I know what I'm looking for and I know what I don't need. But I see people misplaying Brainstorms all the time. Most of the Bs misplays are...

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Deathrite Shaman is banned. Bitterblossom and Wild Nacatl are unbanned.

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I could see Library unbanned only if it gets reworded as legendary. Beside that, there's the pricing issue.

Well, technically turn 2 SFM, turn 3 Nemesis, turn 4 Equip and Swing is nowhere near the power level of any combo deck in the format. Blade decks and Combo are separate entities and comparisons don't...

I'm not experienced with Painter decks, but I thought they ran some main deck Goblin Welders to address Grips and Decays?

Among those Desire is the safest I guess. One thing I'm sure is that I don't want Storm decks with 3 Yawg Win main deck, and wishable Balance and Yawg Win at the same time. That just seem plain dumb....

The format has the tools to fight SotF properly or at least to buy plenty of time. We have entire grave based archetypes winning on turn 1 or 2 with just one or two single spots of possible...

Strong metagaming? If the majority of players were metagaming, we would still have Survival legal. People would start bitching at Jar.
I think Jar is not super-safe to unban because adds too much...

As far as Delver is good and pushed Burn into the layer of tiers 1-1.5, one of Burn's problem was that it was inconsistent. Bs helps fixing inconsistencies, as you correctly stated. So how come Bs is...

Agreed. But in some corner cases adding bs makes the deck more consistent and viable again. Just think about Burn,+4 Delver, +4 Bs +3 Ponder md, +some number of cheap taxing counterspells like...

Well actually you have an exact blue counterpart for almost all those decks:

Maverick becomes Bant aggro or Vial Bant
DnT becomes UW tempo
Jund becomes Brug.

So yeah, Bs (alongside Fow) is a...

Turn one Ancient Tomb into Grim Monolith, turn 2 Mind Twist for 5. Oh, now I understand why they keep it banned. Clearly a broken strategy.

That's a pretty poor argument.



This is an interesting approach, but in the meantime Delver.decks appeared, Snapcaster was printed, and Goblin and other tribal decks got Cavern of Souls....

SotF is nowhere near to SnT speaking of raw power. You need 1ggg to discard a creature, get a Squee and gain +1 ca out of it, or 1gggg to beat with 2 Vengevine and a couple of lizards. Snt? Tomb,...

Before they ban Karakas they should ban Island, if your non-reason for ban is format dominance.

I'd love to see SotF unbanned, I don't mind if Vengevine would be legal at the same time since I...

I agree with him up to a certain point. You can play Bs istant speed to look for quick answers to things you need to answer immediately (Snt, AdN) or in response to a discard spell, obviously. But...

Ban fucking Vault, for example. /OT

That's the current state of things. But if things go differently, you need to adapt.



Again, this is not a rule written somewhere. If (just a stupid example) you have certain data regarding a...

Not only I'd love to see SotF unbanned, but I would not have problems with a format in which SotF and VV would co exist. Would it really be that broken? I mean, would it still be broken if players...

Dude, is not that your deck is 4 pithing needle and 56 cards.

You clearly have the Weltanschauung of a mono red player. ''If I play Pithing needle, he's going to have the bouncer'' and you? Don't...

So true. We have very few solid decks which put up results regularly on a worldwide scale, namely Tempo Thresh, UWx Blade wathever and Maverick. But, in europe most of the times those 3 decks will...

I'm really sad Survival will not come off the banned list soon. It should be the first card to be discussed to come off the banned list. I think that the right thing to do is not only to unban...

There is this concept called card quality. Brainstorm provides better cards. Not more cards. Just better ones in relation to the gamestate.

I disagree. Goblins are still good, even now in a field of Missteps. You don't need Misstep in your opening 7. But if you happen to draw it, it does so many things and is very versatile in the hands...

Majikal is right regarding Maverick. Ooze outclassed the mono-Goyf in those decks.